In my opinion
Analysis of the appointments of provosts underscores the need to disrupt and dismantle current promotion processes.
Despite new technologies, the foundations of teaching and learning have not changed.
Reading and studying is the only sure route to originality.
We need to reimagine our teaching practices.
Readying novice field researchers to cope with potential feelings of dislocation on their return should be part of their training toolkit too.
Imposing broad rules on universities around ownership of intellectual property in complex research collaborations is not the answer.
A professor reflects on the recent attack on two students and a professor at the University of Waterloo.
The outgoing president and CEO of Universities Canada reflects on the past 14 years.
The discovery of McLuhan collaborator Harley Parker’s Culture Box after 50 years should inspire other scholarly sleuths.
Georgetown University futurist Bryan Alexander ponders higher education’s next 75 years in a climate-changed world.
Large language models are here to stay, but they also present ethics and equity questions about their design, operationalization, and legacy that universities must consider.
The growing interest in wellness is an opportunity for universities to provide evidence-based information beyond campuses, in the broader community.
Teaching students how to responsibly question and discover answers must become a greater priority in education.
Members of the chief science adviser of Canada’s inaugural Youth Council share a vision for science as their term comes to an end.
Student clubs are struggling in the pandemic’s wake. Universities can help them back on their feet.
Variations on the ‘venture studio’ model may be a way forward for inventions developed with and by university researchers.
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are being used in unexpected places and hopeful ways on campuses across the country.
Students, community activists, and critical scholars are calling for more justice-oriented approaches to the climate crisis. How will universities respond?
Budget is just one factor that leads to a well-functioning journal.
The value of tools like ChatGPT depends on how we use them, which makes interdisciplinary undergraduate education more important than ever.